Oscar Handlin
American historian
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Oscar Handlin was an American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history, virtually inventing the field of immigration history in the... Wikipedia
Born: September 29, 1915, New York, NY
Died: September 20, 2011 (age 95 years), Cambridge, MA
Children: 3, including David P. Handlin
Education: Harvard University (1940) and Brooklyn College
Award: Pulitzer Prize (1952)
Partner: Lilian Handlin
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